Barbara is an entrepreneur and investor, passionate about nature, science and space.
She is currently founder and CEO at Interstellar Lab whose mission is to design and build bioregenerative habitats for humans to live sustainably on any planet, starting with Earth.
She started her carreer as investor first in a FoF, then Private Equity and finally Venture Capital, raising over $80M and participated in 40 deals. At 28, she left to focus on her passion: tech and science. She helped launching The Family, a Paris-based incubator and Hello Tomorrow, an event fostering scientific innovation. Then she founded her own asset management firm in 2013 which became in 2015 Hardware Club. A hybrid fund with offices in SF, Paris and Tokyo with a focus on robotics and hardware. It incubated 400 startups worldwide, total 150 corporate partners and a $50M seed-stage investment.
Youngest women founder of a venture capital fund in Europe, she was considered by Forbes as « the future of VC » in Europe, is among the Top-100 Forbes List Women to follow in Europe and the Top-10 Women to watch in Tech In France in 2018.